COMPANY
CULTURE
International Speaker
Paulina Tenner
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0 October 2022
Company Culture Workshop
- What is company culture?! possible ways of exploring this topic
- How to determine your purpose and values
- How to recruit for culture fit and for “future culture fit”, how we did the latter at GrantTree (introducing subject-object interview framework designed by Robert Kegan
- Importance of making a stand in terms of what matters to you as a founder and finding an operational/governance structure that reflects your beliefs
- How to find leader role models and to what extend to follow their path (as opposed to designing your own!)
- Examples of possible organisational structures: holacracy, teal organisations (as per model of Frederic Laloux), self-managing teams - all from personal experience
- Ways of tuning into your ambitions for the business as a founder - both in terms of “moonshot goal” as well social impact and financial rewards
- How to find funding source and model that reflects your values and is aligned with what kind of company you want to run
Paulina Tenner
Paulina is an entrepreneur, an angel investor (current portfolio of 12 companies), a TEDx speaker and a founder of GrantTree,
started with a purpose to help tech startups navigate the complex world of government funding. Since 2010 the team grew organically from 2 to over 50,
and raised over £200m for more than 600 technology startups and scaleups using solely government funding schemes. GrantTree is also an open culture
company which pioneered a self set salary scheme, and an empowering culture governed by holacracy.
Paulina is also a seed investor and a startup mentor, who features as a keynote speaker at technology conferences worldwide.
She has been interviewed by the BBC, the Financial Times, Vogue, the Guardian, featured on Channel 5, in the Huffington Post, on Virginstartups.com and many more.
Fun Fact
She is also the author of “Laid Bare: what the business leader learnt from the stripper” describing leadership lessons she learnt as a burlesque dancer.
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